No, it's the other way around, they give you the option to play the multiplayer levels solo. But they are still the multiplayer levels.

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Just because it being that way would help your argument doesn't make it the case.

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It is the case, Port Tanzia isn't called the "Online City" for nothing. It has been the same ever since the beginning of the series, they give you an online city to go to so you can play the "Multiplayer Mode". The fact that you can play it Solo doesn't make it the single player when the purpose of the city is to play online. It is the only place you can go to play online, the single player experience is in Moga Village.

It is the case, Port Tanzia isn't called the "Online City" for nothing. It has been the same ever since the beginning of the series, they give you an online city to go to so you can play the "Multiplayer Mode". The fact that you can play it Solo doesn't make it the single player when the purpose of the city is to play online. It is the only place you can go to play online, the single player experience is in Moga Village.

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Except it still is single player, you have to specifically choose to go to a multiplayer version of to enable that. It's still a single player area naturally.

It is the case, Port Tanzia isn't called the "Online City" for nothing. It has been the same ever since the beginning of the series, they give you an online city to go to so you can play the "Multiplayer Mode". The fact that you can play it Solo doesn't make it the single player when the purpose of the city is to play online. It is the only place you can go to play online, the single player experience is in Moga Village.

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Except it still is single player, you have to specifically choose to go to a multiplayer version of to enable that. It's still a single player area naturally.

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Just coming back to "a Multiplayer Mode with a Single Player option". It doesn't matter how it's set up when the purpose of Port Tanzia is to play online. The Quests are set up to play online, I won't criticize anyone for playing it solo, because I play it completely solo. But to think that the "Online City", a staple in every single Monster Hunter game, isn't meant to play with people is just foolish. And is trying to justify something that doesn't need justification

But this is going to go on forever so I think I'm gonna step out of this, seeing as neither of us will budge

Believe me, I know it was there. We had conversations earlier in the thread about how long and pointless everything they said was and how we gave up and just started skipping over it all.

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And that's what you get for playing games as if they were MMOs instead of actual games. You have no emotional investment, no devotion, no passion, and that's why you see it as a grind instead of an intense and thrilling series of battles.

Believe me, I know it was there. We had conversations earlier in the thread about how long and pointless everything they said was and how we gave up and just started skipping over it all.

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And that's what you get for playing games as if they were MMOs instead of actual games. You have no emotional investment, no devotion, no passion, and that's why you see it as a grind instead of an intense and thrilling series of battles.

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No no. I see it as an intense series of thrilling battles. When I describe it to friends who haven't played it before I tell them it's like a game of nothing but boss battles. Just having to do the same battle 10-15 times to get a rare drop of an item would get a little old sometimes if I wasn't doing it with friends.

You like the story, great. Good for you but for someone who acts superior about his tastes you have insanely low standards. And even putting all of that aside, this game gets hundreds of hours out of people and the "story" is very short. It's not the story that sucks people into playing that much and it doesn't drive the action in any way.

Good for you but for someone who acts superior about his tastes you have insanely low standards.

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My standards are quite high, I'm just pointing out that when you treat a game like an MMO, of course it's going to be more of a chore than a game.

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You are saying the exact opposite of what I'm saying because that's the argument you want to be having. You aren't half way as far as I am in the game and already you are talking about how you probably aren't going to finish it and you're making these arguments and expecting people to give it any weight? Get as far as I've gotten and then say there aren't times the game feels like a grind getting certain parts even while doing it solo.

There is a ton of fun to have in the game playing solo. Soloing the multi-player levels adds a ton of challenge to the game. I understand why people would do it. I also understand why a lot of 3DS players had no choice but to only play that way. But playing that way is adding extra challenge and length to the game that I would expect to be done by a die hard fan looking to challange themselves after they mastered it, not someone who is already talking about not finishing it a first time.

You are saying the exact opposite of what I'm saying because that's the argument you want to be having. You aren't half way as far as I am in the game and already you are talking about how you probably aren't going to finish it and you're making these arguments and expecting people to give it any weight? Get as far as I've gotten and then say there aren't times the game feels like a grind getting certain parts even while doing it solo.

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I've dumped over 800 hours into 2nd G and at least 1100 into Portable 3rd. I know what I'm talking about with this franchise, believe me.

You are saying the exact opposite of what I'm saying because that's the argument you want to be having. You aren't half way as far as I am in the game and already you are talking about how you probably aren't going to finish it and you're making these arguments and expecting people to give it any weight? Get as far as I've gotten and then say there aren't times the game feels like a grind getting certain parts even while doing it solo.

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I've dumped over 800 hours into 2nd G and at least 1100 into Portable 3rd. I know what I'm talking about with this franchise, believe me.

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So your telling me at no point during your 2000 hours were you ever fighting a monster just to get a part and that everytime you fought a monster it was because it was an intense and thrilling battle and you couldn't wait to find out how beating the monster again would drive the story forward?

So your telling me at no point during your 2000 hours were you ever fighting a monster just to get a part and that everytime you fought a monster it was because it was an intense and thrilling battle and you couldn't wait to find out how beating the monster again would drive the story forward?

Yeah, sorry, no, I don't believe you.

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Obviously repeat monsters won't drive the plot forward, but every fight with a large monster is always a thrill. If the fight wasn't fun, I wouldn't bother doing it.

You are saying the exact opposite of what I'm saying because that's the argument you want to be having. You aren't half way as far as I am in the game and already you are talking about how you probably aren't going to finish it and you're making these arguments and expecting people to give it any weight? Get as far as I've gotten and then say there aren't times the game feels like a grind getting certain parts even while doing it solo.

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I've dumped over 800 hours into 2nd G and at least 1100 into Portable 3rd. I know what I'm talking about with this franchise, believe me.

So your telling me at no point during your 2000 hours were you ever fighting a monster just to get a part and that everytime you fought a monster it was because it was an intense and thrilling battle and you couldn't wait to find out how beating the monster again would drive the story forward?

Yeah, sorry, no, I don't believe you.

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Obviously repeat monsters won't drive the plot forward, but every fight with a large monster is always a thrill. If the fight wasn't fun, I wouldn't bother doing it.

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So there is never a good game worth playing that may have a slow or repetitive part? As soon as any game has one of those you abandon it?

I'm not even sure what you are trying to do here. You can't honestly think and believe these things. Why are could you possibly gain by trying to project this?

Actually managed to play a few hunts with Jon the other day. His connection is still shit for whatever reason, and his machine still freezes every now and again--I think the last system update fucked something up for him--but it did at least allow us to complete a few quests together (in between disconnections), and we even managed to get him to HR 5.

Haven't been motivated to play at all this week. Been more interested in boardgaming lately, and I also got into Band of Brothers earlier this week, which will be a time commitment for a little while longer (and then I'll probably jump right into The Pacific).

I don't know. As much as I want to "finish" the game, I'm starting to feel like it's taken up too much of my time and that I'd like to move on to other things. Or I just need a break from it. Problem is I feel like I lose a lot of skill when I go without playing for too long.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be super anxious to get playing again in due time, and especially when @Jinglz123 joins us and when/if Jon's connection stabilizes.

Haven't been motivated to play at all this week. Been more interested in boardgaming lately, and I also got into Band of Brothers earlier this week, which will be a time commitment for a little while longer (and then I'll probably jump right into The Pacific).

I don't know. As much as I want to "finish" the game, I'm starting to feel like it's taken up too much of my time and that I'd like to move on to other things. Or I just need a break from it. Problem is I feel like I lose a lot of skill when I go without playing for too long.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be super anxious to get playing again in due time, and especially when @Jinglz123 joins us and when/if Jon's connection stabilizes.

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New system update today.

And I'd be up to get together and play every week or two to stay in practice.

Haven't been motivated to play at all this week. Been more interested in boardgaming lately, and I also got into Band of Brothers earlier this week, which will be a time commitment for a little while longer (and then I'll probably jump right into The Pacific).

I don't know. As much as I want to "finish" the game, I'm starting to feel like it's taken up too much of my time and that I'd like to move on to other things. Or I just need a break from it. Problem is I feel like I lose a lot of skill when I go without playing for too long.

Anyway, I'm sure I'll be super anxious to get playing again in due time, and especially when @Jinglz123 joins us and when/if Jon's connection stabilizes.

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New system update today.

And I'd be up to get together and play every week or two to stay in practice.

Forgot to tell Jon about this when I saw him last weekend. MH even came up briefly in conversation. Oh, well.

Yeah, I’m interested...I guess. I don’t think I’ll have time to play it this week. Maybe next. I’ve been going to bed really early lately, out of boredom. Nice to get the extra sleep, but it actually feels like I could be using some of the time in the evening to play games or something. MH is the obvious answer but I’m just eh about it at this point. I think I’ll borrow The Last of Us from Jon and start playing that instead.